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We’re celebrating a milestone at the CDR! Last Friday, we reached the feature freeze stage of development of the new CDR platform. This means that we are done adding new features and will start moving existing content to the new…

In November, we wrote about the impending launch of the brand new Carolina Digital Repository. We are launching this new platform so that our scholarly collections will be easier to locate both within the system and to search engines like…

In partnership with UNC Press, the CDR is pleased to provide open access to the Coates University Leadership series which publishes works about UNC-Chapel Hill chancellors and presidents. The series is published by UNC Libraries and is edited by Robert G.…

January 1, 2019 is Public Domain Day in the United States! On this date, works published in 1923 will be available to use freely. View a list of popular works that will enter the public domain in 2019. The Duke Center for…

We are very excited to share that we will be launching the brand new Carolina Digital Repository in the coming months! What’s Changed? New Look The CDR will have a new look and feel. It will be easier to navigate,…

As part of UNC Libraries’ Open Access Week celebrations, Cliff Missen of the UNC School of Information and Library Science and the WiderNet Project spoke about the eGranary Digital Library. The eGranary is a server or USB drive containing more…

We’ve been very busy over the past few months adding new content to the Carolina Digital Repository. Here are some highlights: The State of the University, 2000-2008: Major Addresses by UNC Chancellor James Moeser This ebook, made freely available…

UNC library staff members attended the Triangle Research Libraries Network’s (TRLN) Annual Meeting in Durham, North Carolina. This meeting brought together library staff from UNC, North Carolina State University, Duke University and North Carolina Central University to share projects and…

What is a DOI? DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier. It is a unique sequence of numbers and letters that is assigned to a digital object as a permanent identifier. Therefore, researchers searching for a particular document can type the…

Several members of the UNC Libraries staff attended the Open Repositories conference in Bozeman, Montana. This annual conference provides a venue for repository managers, developers, staff and administrators from all over the world to discuss new developments and best practices…